Why the study?
Voltage-gated sodium channels regulate plasma membrane electrical activity, and mutations in associated subunits can cause pathological outcomes such as cardiac arrhythmias.
The SCN4B I80T mutation disrupts a functionally important region in the interaction between NaV1.5 and β4, leading to channel dysfunction, while SCN2B R137H may act through other NaV channel subtypes.
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Cautious interpretation required before clinical use; leaves open relevance of these β-subunit variants to human arrhythmia syndromes.
Llongueras et al. (2020) studied this question.
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